Word: slogs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...behavior doesn't fit into neoclassical economic models, which assume that human beings are rational agents who act in their own best interests. In the real world, human beings are human beings. Sometimes we're too dumb to know our own best interests. Sometimes we're too lazy to slog through the forms to figure out our own best interests. Often we're conformists; we assume the default must be the default because that's what most people do, and we're desperate not to be social deviants...
...Fields—what every other school calls a minor—but promptly began discouraging students from getting them. Which makes sense! Don’t think of it as only needing a few more courses to get a super-decorated diploma. Think of it as having to slog through classes you would not otherwise take, miss two treasured electives you would, all for the sake of an extra designation NOT noted on your diploma that no one else will really care about anyways...
...This rule is especially true in higher level courses or cores where you’re assigned whole batches of academic papers or books to read each week. You almost certainly do not need to slog through it all. Narrow your focus to that which is necessary for the final/midterm/paper sweet spot, and you’ll do fine...
Which goes to show that for all the glimmers of hope in housing, there is still a long slog ahead. Because fundamentally, what a rational housing market means is that people can afford the homes they have and move to bigger ones only once they have decent and growing paychecks...
...antique Hasbro soldier figures, but they are woven clumsily. Director Stephen Sommers, who did the Mummy trilogy, has no skill with actors and little more with the manipulation of real and virtual hardware. We know the theme will be "War is swell," but the film plays like a long slog in the Big Muddy. (See pictures of ninja warriors: from myth to movies...